If the Waves Are Good

A group in Israel called Explore Corps is helping to set up the first surf club in Gaza and generally get Palestinian kids out into the fresh air. It now has a web site. The guy in charge, Matt Olsen, showed me around the coast of Israel and took me surfing when Arthur Rashkovan was busy. They’re both friends with Dorian Paskowitz, the venerable (and still-kicking) Californian pioneer of Israel’s surf scene. “God will surf with the devil, if the waves are good,” Paskowitz told journalists last summer, when he brought a quiver of boards across the Gaza border to help seed a surf scene there. “When a surfer sees another surfer with a board, he can’t help but say something that brings them together.”

     posted 27 April 2008 by Michael Scott Moore

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